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Audio no longer working after inserting "new" radeon graphics card

Post by peppamint »

Hi,

My system was working nicely (with respect to video and audio) until I have inserted an amd graphics card. I was using the onboard graphics chip before that. Now audio is not available. I have no idea how to get this working again. I hope I can get some help here:

What I find strange is this. The graphics card is an older model from AMD it has two DVI connectors. But lspci shows an hdmi audio device:
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Cedar [Radeon HD 5000/6000/7350/8350 Series]
01:00.1 Audio device: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Cedar HDMI Audio [Radeon HD 5400/6300 Series]
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ClixTrix

Re: Audio no longer working after inserting "new" radeon graphics card

Post by ClixTrix »

Please run the following command from Terminal and post back the results:

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inxi -Fxz
I would check BIOS Settings to verify onboard audio is still enabled.
peppamint

Re: Audio no longer working after inserting "new" radeon graphics card

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$ inxi -Fxz
System:    Host: ThinkCentre-M57 Kernel: 4.10.0-40-generic x86_64 (64 bit gcc: 5.4.0)
           Desktop: Cinnamon 3.4.6 (Gtk 3.18.9) Distro: Linux Mint 18.2 Sonya
Machine:   System: Hewlett-Packard product: HP Compaq dc7700 Convertible Minitower
           Mobo: Hewlett-Packard model: 0A58h
           Bios: Hewlett-Packard v: 786E1 v01.05 date: 08/30/2006
CPU:       Dual core Intel Core2 Duo E7500 (-MCP-) cache: 3072 KB
           flags: (lm nx sse sse2 sse3 ssse3) bmips: 11695
           clock speeds: max: 2923 MHz 1: 2923 MHz 2: 2923 MHz
Graphics:  Card: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] Cedar [Radeon HD 5000/6000/7350/8350 Series]
           bus-ID: 01:00.0
           Display Server: X.Org 1.18.4 drivers: ati,radeon (unloaded: fbdev,vesa)
           Resolution: 1280x1024@60.02hz
           GLX Renderer: Gallium 0.4 on AMD CEDAR (DRM 2.49.0 / 4.10.0-40-generic, LLVM 4.0.0)
           GLX Version: 3.0 Mesa 17.0.7 Direct Rendering: Yes
Audio:     Card-1 Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] Cedar HDMI Audio [Radeon HD 5400/6300 Series]
           driver: snd_hda_intel bus-ID: 01:00.1
           Card-2 LG USA driver: USB Audio usb-ID: 002-003
           Sound: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture v: k4.10.0-40-generic
Network:   Card-1: Intel 82566DM Gigabit Network Connection
           driver: e1000e v: 3.2.6-k port: 2000 bus-ID: 00:19.0
           IF: enp0s25 state: down mac: <filter>
           Card-2: Qualcomm Atheros AR2413/AR2414 Wireless Network Adapter [AR5005G(S) 802.11bg]
           driver: ath5k bus-ID: 07:09.0
           IF: wlan0 state: up mac: <filter>
Drives:    HDD Total Size: 120.0GB (56.6% used)
           ID-1: /dev/sda model: Patriot_Blast size: 120.0GB
Partition: ID-1: / size: 105G used: 58G (59%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda1
           ID-2: swap-1 size: 6.13GB used: 0.00GB (0%) fs: swap dev: /dev/sda5
RAID:      No RAID devices: /proc/mdstat, md_mod kernel module present
Sensors:   System Temperatures: cpu: 42.0C mobo: N/A
           Fan Speeds (in rpm): cpu: N/A
Info:      Processes: 235 Uptime: 10:23 Memory: 2590.6/5901.7MB
           Init: systemd runlevel: 5 Gcc sys: 5.4.0
           Client: Shell (bash 4.3.481) inxi: 2.2.35 
Last edited by peppamint on Sat Dec 16, 2017 3:18 am, edited 2 times in total.
ClixTrix

Re: Audio no longer working after inserting "new" radeon graphics card

Post by ClixTrix »

peppamint wrote: Audio: Card-1 Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] Cedar HDMI Audio [Radeon HD 5400/6300 Series]
driver: snd_hda_intel bus-ID: 01:00.1
Card-2 LG USA driver: USB Audio usb-ID: 002-003
Sound: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture v: k4.10.0-40-generic
I don't see the onboard audio listed. The Radeon HD Cedar has its own integrated HD Audio, which may cause the motherboard BIOS to detect and disable onboard audio.

Did you check BIOS settings to see if the onboard audio is enabled? If the setting has ENABLE/DISABLE/AUTO, set it to ENABLE (not AUTO).

If that option doesn't exist in BIOS, does removing the Radeon HD for a test bring back the onboard audio?
peppamint

Re: Audio no longer working after inserting "new" radeon graphics card

Post by peppamint »

The bios setting for onboard audio was disabled. Enabling and adding

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radeon.audio=0
to kernel parameters gave back onboard audio. Thank you very much!
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